<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div>A colleague and I noticed a feature of xymon last week, and tested it across a few version from 4.3.12 to 4.3.17 [ upgrading etc etc is not a trivial matter in these environments so its meaningless to just suggest "upgrade asap" - although see [1] for general feedback etc ].<br><br>If a new host is added to hosts.cfg with a noconn configuration in a new group or page configuratiopn<br><br>eg<br><br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>page test Test<br>group-compress <H3>Test</H3><br>4.5.6.7 test # noconn<br><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">that server NEVER appears in the webpage as expected, although the new group does appear albeit then empty<br><br></div>If it is introduced without that noconn parementer then it does as expected appear. Then adding noconn to it subsequently does indeed drop the conn column and reproting then continues as normal.<br><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We have also found that specifying noping instead of noconn does include the server in the webpage with a white face in the conn column - ie it does get included, so is maybe a work round at least) <br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">However...<br><br> adding <br><br><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>4.5.6.7 test # noconn <br><br></span><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>t</span>o an already existing group/page - that server DOES get listed but with no subsequent tests against it - the line remains empty<span></span></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>This would appear to be a feature of xymon Ive not come accrioss in 9+ years of using it. <br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">[1] Anybody found any other "fixes" to be ablwe to sepcify noconn from the outset?<br><br>I've googled but nothing appears to match that - though that could just be my rubbish googling skills... <br><br><br><div>UPDATE: deeper wierdness... if i add a eg ssh test to that hosts.cfg line ... then the server DOES get added... <br></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">cheers</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">ian<br></div></div></div><br></div> <div><br><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>